Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic

BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta condemned on Tuesday Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic's statement that imposing and forcing the use of Cyrillic in Vukovar on signs installed on public institutions is reopening old wounds for the Croats that suffered in that town.

SARAJEVO - Bosniak member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina three-person presidency Bakir Izetbegovic has said that he expects to meet Serbia's Prime Minsiter Aleksandar Vucic in Sarajevo in May, and also a visit from Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic soon.

BELGRADE - Former Croatian president Stjepan Mesic stated Monday that relations between Croatia and Serbia are not as they should be in the best interest of both countries and the region as a whole.

The relations are still burdened by the past, and Zagreb and Belgrade will have to overcome their disagreements soon, Mesic told Belgrade-based daily Danas.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev began a two-day visit to Zagreb and Croatia on Tuesday, meeting President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic and Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic to discuss issues of mutual economic interest and boost ties.

Plevneliev was the first head of state to visit the Croatian capital since Grabar Kitarovic took office in February.

Deputies' Chamber Speaker Valeriu Zgonea on Wednesday and Thursday pays an official visit to the Republic of Croatia, in Zagreb, at the invitation of Republic of Croatia Parliament Speaker Josip Leko.

Photo credit: (c) Mihai POZIUMSCHI / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

BELGRADE - Chairman of the Serbian Parliament's Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Janko Veselinovic said Monday that the appointment of Ante Gotovina as an advisor to Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic is not the kind of news to which the Serbs in Croatia and Serbia could be indifferent.

BELGRADE- President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta called on Sunday on Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic to change the "scandalous" decision on the appointment of generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac as advisors with the Homeland Security Council, if she is truly committed to ensuring better relations with Serbia.

President Nikolic condemns the burning of a Croatian flag

Tomislav Nikolic condemned in the strongest terms the burning of a Croatian flag and underscored that the perpetrators will be punished in line with the law.

The Serbian president made this statement in a message sent to his Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic on Thursday.

President condemns flag-burning incident

BELGRADE -- Tomislav Nikolic condemned in the strongest terms the burning of a Croatian flag and underscored that the perpetrators will be punished in line with the law.

The Serbian president made this statement in a message sent to his Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbia's President Tomislav Nikolic sent a message to Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic on Thursday, saying that he condemns in the strongest terms the burning of a Croatian flag and underscoring that the perpetrators will be punished in line with the law.